Marilyn Minter Presents "My Cuntry 'Tis of Thee" @ Simon Lee Gallery London

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

In Marilyn Minter’s video work, “My Cuntry 'Tis of Thee” (2018), women write the word ‘cunt’ into condensation on a glass pane. As the women articulate each letter, their features are gradually revealed as the steam hiding them dissipates. Minter reclaims one of the most widely acknowledged offensive words by providing the women in her video the chance to, quite literally, write it away from its degrading associations. The artist’s debut exhibition with Simon Lee Gallery and her first solo presentation in the UK in thirty years explores feminism and sexual politics through images that dismantle Western culture’s hierarchies of censorship and misogyny. “My Cuntry 'Tis of Thee” is on view through July 13 at Simon Lee Gallery 12 Berkeley St, Mayfair, London. photographs courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery London.